semi handy
I bought 6 of them for our student rental. the quality and durability is still wait to be seen. I can only speak of the installation and my initial impression. build quality is solid. the entire assembly feels very solid, heavy in other words. installation: is fairly easy, but can be improved. this has something to do with the design. [read on] the design improvement ideas: 1. the keys travel a lot more than people commonly expected. I know it is due to the mechanical mechanism. But if you can change it to half the travel depth, it would be a lot more user-friendly. 2. The vertical layout. with most of the doors, the handles are at hip level. That means people have to look down to see the buttons. Making the keypad (or just the keys) slightly angled upward makes it easier to read and operate. 3. no lock to the unlock position. If a person leaves the room for a few minutes, there is no need to lock the door. But this keypad locks every time. 4. It requires a hole on top of the keypad to hold the keypad in place. This means if I don't want to use this keypad anymore, I have a hole to patch and paint. A better way is to have two screws on each side of the stem, like all other locks do…